Vice President Engineer

Location:

United States

Posted:

December 10, 2012

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Credentials and Experience of

George T. Willingmyre, P.E., President

1996

- Present

George

T. Willingmyre. P.E. is the President and founder of GTW Associates.

GTW

Associates

is an International Standards and Trade Policy consultancy.

GTW Associates advises companies, law firms, associations,

and governments

on the strategic role of standards and

conformity assessment and intellectual property policy practices in

competitiveness of businesses, organizations and countries

in the global marketplace. Current

activities include representing US business interests to national and

international organizations; recommending corporate standards

strategies and tactics; interpretation and commenting on

global standards processes and IPR policies with competition implications, assisting foreign organizations

and businesses with US

market access issues. Typical

GTW assignments are to advise

corporations on global standards strategies and intellectual property

rights considerations; expert witness testimony; survey and prepare

competitive analyses of national

standards and conformity assessment infrastructures; research,

interpret and advise approaches to market access problems in US and

global markets. GTW issues

an Insight newsletter from time to time at http://www.gtwassociates.com/alerts/index.htm

Mr. Willingmyre

currently serves on the ANSI

Intellectual

Property Rights Policy Committee; the

IPRPC Copyright

Group; the ANSI International

Policy Committee; The

ANSI ISO Council AIC) ; ( Regional

Steering committees for Asia/Pacific, Europe/Middle

East, and ;

the Company

Member Forum; and the Consumer

Interest Forum. Mr.

Willingmyre served on the W3C

patent policy-working group and

currently is a member of the ITU

Telecommunications Standards Bureau (TSB) Director s Ad Hoc Group on IPR; the IETF

IPR working group; the

Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) The

SGIP Bylaws and Operating Practives Working group BOPWG and the SGIP

IPR Working group and the ABA

Science & Technology Section Technical

Standardization and Infrastructure Committee that developed the ABA

Standards Development Patent Policy Manual.

Mr. Willingmyre is a observer of the IEEE

Standards Association Patent committee and Standards

Board; monitors the IP policies of numerous standards organizations and maintains

an online database

Intellectual

Property Rights Policies of selected standards developers

Willingmyre is "Special Advisor to the International Federation

of Standards Users" Mr Willingmyre supports the

IFAN WG19 on Intellectual

Property and Standards Willingmyre

lectures frequently at

national and international standards and conformity assessment

meetings and is a frequent contributor to "TalkStandards" at

http://www.talkstandards.com

1989

- 1995 Vice President, Public Policy,

American National Standards Institute

Mr.

Willingmyre served as

Vice President of the American National Standards Institute. helping

U.S. business, professional societies, trade associations,

federal agencies, and Congress promote private sector voluntary

solutions to national issues and

advancing

U.S. industrial competitiveness in global markets.

Responsibilities

included ANSI

Public Policy and Government Relations, ANSI s Company,

Organizational and Governmental Member Councils and national programs

for Conformity Assessment

accreditation and policy.

Mr.

Willingmyre

managed ANSI s

Public Relations, Meetings, Membership and Communications operations.

Mr.

Willingmyre was the

founding secretary of the International Accreditation Forum.

Willingmyre built strong

relationships with key standards officials within governments,

associations, standards developing organizations, conformity

assessment bodies and businesses in the United States and around the

world.

Willingmyre

advised the ANSI Board on

domestic and international strategies, opportunities for

public/private sector alliances, and international policy

negotiations.

Mr.

Willingmyre organized

US preparations at ANSI

for standards

and conformity assessment policy meetings with European and NAFTA

public and private standards and conformity assessment officials.1978 -

1989 Vice President Technical

Affairs,

and

Director, International Technical

Affairs Health

Industry Manufacturers Association (HIMA)

Willingmyre built

consensus on solutions to technical and trade issues in the medical

technology sector and represented members concerns before U.S. and foreign

government policy makers and international standards organizationsAcademic

and professional credentials:

The Johns Hopkins University,

BSEE, Tau Beta Pi

The

George Washington University, MSEE, with honors

Registered Professional Engineer, State of Maryland

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